Adoption's Group Cultural Guide to OpenJDK

OpenJDK is now a well established Free Software Ecosystem, with a
vibrant Community and lots of interesting stuff going on, with
projects, repositories, bug database and above all experiments!

This is exciting and fun, but given the challenges of such massive
project, it is intimidating and it is easy to get lost. It is also
easy to forget that such massive infrastructure requires well defined
rules, that are sometime perceived as blocking rather than aiding the
participation. To help people wanting to contribute keep track of this
intricate forest of development and find their way in, the Adoption
Group was created (http://openjdk.java.net/groups/adoption/).

This session is an exchange between few of the hackers directly
involved with the Adoption Group and the public, we will answer
questions the audience may have in relation to getting involved with
OpenJDK, try to define and explain workarounds for most common
problems (and blockers!) that newcomers face, discuss some of the
projects we are currently involved with, and hope to be your Ariadne's
thread to win back the fun of contributing and participating at all
levels, without ever getting lost!